Pariat has created an OST for it brimming with the evocative music of Tchaikovsky, Brahms, Mozart and Liszt. She recommends listening to Catarina Moreno’s Dead Birds, a song by a Portuguese musician friend of hers that is hauntingly beautiful. Her curation of music finds resonance in the book

I read a lot, without the stimuli of any challenges. This year, a shift in my job position opened up my world to the luxury of reading a book, as and when I wanted. Reading became full time occupation before other forms of work turned up and demanded attention. I still manage to read every day,...